Audubon North Carolina: Carl the Traveling Cardinal

We have a confession. We’re nature nerds. Dawn can identify just about any bird that shows up outside our windows. We’ve loved working with Audubon North Carolina on their social media and communications, so we jumped at the opportunity to flex our creativity on a year-end fundraising campaign. From our experience interacting with the Audubon Facebook community we knew […]

Immunity Community: “Why I Vaccinate” Video Series

We believe that giving voice to the silent majority that make the choice to vaccinate will keep the positive chatter going about immunizations and help reassure new parents. As part of our second year with the Immunity Community program, we continued our evolution with the community. Year one was about recruiting and educating advocates. Now, […]

North Carolina Conservation Network: Strategic Plan

When it’s time to stop playing nice… You’ve gotta’ roll up your sleeves and get dirty! After an exploration, that’s exactly what we did for NC Conservation Network’s (NCCN) 10-Year Plan and Annual Report. Flipping the Project on its Head From our early conversations with NCCN staff, we could tell the 10-Year Plan was the star […]

North Carolina Coastal Federation: Awareness Is Key to Victory

How do you close the door on polluters in your community once and for all? After a successful grassroots campaign to Stop Titan, the concrete manufacturing plant that could have polluted the Cape Fear river in Wilmington, NC, NC Coastal Federation approached us to continue the momentum and close the door to polluters. It appeared […]

SHIFT NC: Teen Playbook

Background: In Gaston County, NC, a growing number of young women are taking control of their birth control choices. With The Playbook, they are encouraged to “find it and love it”. APPCNC’s team knew that talking with teens about IUDs and birth control implants would not be easy or fun, so with the help of nonprofit […]

North Carolina Early Education Coalition: COVID and education system

How do you tell the story of COVID-19’s impact on the early childhood education system when you can’t film interviews on-site? Harness the power of Zoom! We worked with the NC Early Education Coalition to conduct online interviews with childcare workers, parents, and coalition members and then used a little editing magic to pull together […]

St. Bernard Parish (SBP): Disaster Relief Volunteering

We had the privilege to partner with SBP on a social edia campaign to increase volunteers for disaster relief projects on North Carolina’s coast. With the COVID-19 pandemic putting in-person production on hold, the BC/DC Ideas team pivoted to using stock footage and images with on-screen text to bring the message home and increase their volunteer base.

MomsRising: Get Out The Vote

Motivating your audience to get out and vote can be tough, especially when they’re busy parents. We partnered with the NC chapter of MomsRising.org to produce a series of fun videos that encouraged moms to get voting on their to-do list! The video concepts were crowdsourced from the MomsRising community and star local mom advocates.

Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic

Telling stories is at the heart of what we do. We worked with The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Duke Law School to share their impactful stories of work with organizations across NC in the fight for environmental justice. We criss-crossed the state from the foothills to the coast to show the important […]

Triangle Impact Video

We worked with the Triangle Impact board to discover ways to help them promote their unique story. Triangle Impact helps people find volunteer opportunities and provides a much needed volunteer workforce for nonprofits in the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area. As we learned more, we discovered that Triangle Impact does two things really […]

Cats Crash the Puppy Bowl!

We’re going to the Puppy Bowl! Every nonprofit wants to hear those magic words of being part of a national broadcast or news story. When Animal Planet selected SAFE Haven for Cats to be part of the annual Puppy Bowl broadcast, our team went into action, creating a communications campaign to leverage the most from […]

Capturing Princeville Rising

Celebrating and Supporting Resilience In this nonprofit video for the Conservation Trust for North Carolina, we meet the people of Princeville, N.C. who are utilizing conservation to build a resilient future. As extreme weather events impact communities across North Carolina, places like Princeville are finding innovative ways to rebuild with greater resilience to our changing climate. Background: In the oldest […]

Insights

Insights Lessons from the front lines of nonprofit communication. Blog Post Filter Health Communications Ideas News Nonprofit Toolbox Tips & How-Tos Filters Blog Post Filter Health Communications Ideas News Nonprofit Toolbox Tips & How-Tos All Posts Coaching & Growth From the beginning, our mission has been to improve nonprofit communications so the entire sector flourishes.  […]

Immunity Community

Background: Washington State has one of the highest vaccine exemption rates for entry into kindergarten in the USA. This not only leaves kids unprotected, but also puts whole communities at risk of contracting and spreading nasty diseases. Vax Northwest, a public and private partnership, worked with BC/DC Ideas to create a communications campaign to amplify […]

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Kindly Review Workshops Get hands-on with the Kind Review process. Learn the steps to bring more kindness to your workflow and then customize it to fit your specific team. We’re all humans, but we don’t need to be crappy humans. Finding kindness in your creative process will produce better work and better people. Pick a […]

Keynotes

Kindly Review Keynotes With over two decades of communications leadership and hands-on experience, Dawn Crawford knows how to unlock a team’s creative and innovative potential. Hire her for your next event to get a presentation from an entertaining speaker with poignant insight and creative advice. Kind Boss: Build Strength in Collaboration 45 Minutes Employees are […]

Kindly Review Book

Unlock the creative and innovative potential of your team In Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great is a transformative new approach to taking the sting out of the review process and unlocking the innovative and creative power of your teams. You’ll learn how to regain control over […]

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Creativity Accelerator for Nonprofits Collaboration, Kindness and Getting Sh*t Done  We believe in a different kind of creativity. One that’s rooted in hand-in-hand partnership to achieve your biggest goals together. We believe in radical kindness and respect while, at the same time, letting the “what ifs” run free.  What Makes Us Different Making sense of […]

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